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Makes no sense. Once you win doesn't mean you sell off your team ala Marlins. You still want to make money and not keeping the guys that draw the biggest crowds isn't teh way to do that.

Look at it this way.
If we win the World Series this year, the pressure of not having won a World Series since 84 will be off of the team. You don't keep making moves to "win now" once you've already won.
It isn't that we're advocating it or anything, or that we even expect it to happen, but it isn't outrageous to think that winning a World Series wouldn't significantly impact what the front office(and Mr. I) do the next couple of years.

Umm...hell yes. The window will close eventually and I would rather have 2 WS and 5 years of crap then1 WS and 7 years of mediocrity.

Originally Posted by Lionsfanfromsac

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We're not the ****ing cubs here. If we were, maybe I would be happy with just winning the world series. Actually, no I probably wouldn't. This team is built for success for the next few years, and if we win it once, you want to dismantle the team? Are you ****ing kidding me? The Giants have won the world series twice in the last few years, they aren't slashing their team in half. The yankees come out every damn year with a contending team. Why the hell would we not try to win the world series every year we possibly can? That's the ultimate goal in baseball

Umm...hell yes. The window will close eventually and I would rather have 2 WS and 5 years of crap then1 WS and 7 years of mediocrity.

Ahoda, I think that both Zander and I would love to have 2, 3, 4, 15 World Series rings in the next 15 years...we are not saying that we would be content with One and Done. No one said that. We are Tigers fans, we want them to win EVERY year.

We're not the ****ing cubs here. If we were, maybe I would be happy with just winning the world series. Actually, no I probably wouldn't. This team is built for success for the next few years, and if we win it once, you want to dismantle the team? Are you ****ing kidding me? The Giants have won the world series twice in the last few years, they aren't slashing their team in half. The yankees come out every damn year with a contending team. Why the hell would we not try to win the world series every year we possibly can? That's the ultimate goal in baseball

Holy cow. No one said dismantle the team. No one said sell off the team. All I said is that I cannot imagine the Tigers having Fielder at $20M+, Cabrera at $25M+, and Verlander at $20M+ every year. That was all I said.

Holy cow. No one said dismantle the team. No one said sell off the team. All I said is that I cannot imagine the Tigers having Fielder at $20M+, Cabrera at $25M+, and Verlander at $20M+ every year. That was all I said.

Remember we have an extra $50M in revenue from the new TV deal in 2014

Illitch will do all he can to resign Cabby. It's going to be up to Miggy if he wants to come back or not.

I agree with this. The silver lining in this whole saga will be that Boras can't touch it skew everything. I really think all 3 stay in Detroit a long time and JV and Miggy retire as Tigers.

Originally Posted by Lionsfanfromsac

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